6 August

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 6 August:

1. On this date in 1808, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and one of the most popular English poets was born. His works include The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Dying Swan, The Lady of Shalott and Idylls of the King.
2. This date in 1927 saw the birth of Andy Warhol, pop artist whose works featured Campbell's soup cans and Brillo boxes. He said, "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."
3. Also born on this date, in 1911, was Lucille Ball, whose show, I Love Lucy, lasted for 180 episodes. After that show ended in 1960, Ball went on to star in two more successful television series: The Lucy Show, which ran on CBS from 1962 to 1968, and Here's Lucy from 1968 to 1974.
4. It was on this date in 1762 that John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, put roast beef between slices of bread so he could eat lunch without leaving the gaming table, thereby inventing the Sandwich.
5. It has been a significant date for Mars. In 1996, NASA announced it had discovered evidence of a primitive life form in a meteorite in Antarctica, which was believed to have come from Mars billions of years ago. In 2012, NASA's Curiosity Rover landed on the Red Planet.
6. In 1859, the first known advertising slogan appeared on Beechams Powders’ packets and in separate advertisements. It read ‘Worth a guinea a box’.
7. In 1945 at 8:15 EDT, the United States B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb, code named "Little Boy", on Hiroshima, Japan, killing an estimated 140,000 people in the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare and wiping out four square miles.
8. In 1996, 30 people turned themselves in to the police in Wales, confessing to the crime of paying income tax and VAT which was used for weapons and other government activity that violated international law. The police refused to arrest any of them.
9. It's been a good day for sea serpents. In 1817, a large, snake like creature was spotted near Gloucester Harbour, Massachusetts, thought to be a sea serpent; and in 1848, another sea serpent was reported by British naval frigate Daedalus.
10. In 1868, a bright red globular ball of Fire, 24 inches across, hovered above the Glendowan Mountains in Donegal for 20 minutes.

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